Smyths House
SMYTHS HOUSE, 1 AND 2, KENTON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1199815
- Date first listed:
- 24-Jun-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Smyths House
- Statutory Address:
- SMYTHS HOUSE, 1 AND 2, KENTON ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1199815
- Date first listed:
- 24-Jun-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Smyths House
- Statutory Address 1:
- SMYTHS HOUSE, 1 AND 2, KENTON ROAD
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- SMYTHS HOUSE, 1 AND 2, KENTON ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Debenham
- National Grid Reference:
- TM1811063285
Details
DEBENHAM KENTON ROAD
TM 16 SE
4/116 Nos. 1 & 2, Smyths House
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GV II
Former farmhouse, now 2 dwellings. C15, the parlour cell slightly enlarged
c.1600. Renovated and sub-divided 1986-87, work continuing at time of survey
(June 1987). Timber framed and rendered; small remains of old plaster lined
to imitate ashlar. Plaintiled roof: concrete tiles to front, clay tiles to
rear. A former open hall house of 3-cell form. 2 storeys. Casement windows
without glazing bars, inserted 1986. 2 mid C20 boarded doors. 2 small flush
rooflights. Internal stack, the shaft rebuilt mid C20. Lean-to additions to
right and to rear, the latter of flint and brick. Interior. Largely intact
frame, the hall with a mid rail. Open truss has cambered tie beam with
massive arched braces, the rear portion partly cut away; the tie beam carries
a crown-post of cross-quadrate section, with 2-way bracing to the collar
purlin. Intact coupled rafters. Part of one hall window with diamond
mullions and evidence for the other; evidence for cross-entry doorways.
Timbers in service partition concealed. Upper end wall of hall has moulded
and embattled dais beam (largely obscured by the stack which was inserted
against it) and remains of the 2-centre arched doorway into the parlour. All
C15 hall timbers are heavily sooted. C15 joists in parlour and service ends.
Inserted hall ceiling has axial bridging beam and chamfered joists, perhaps
late C16. Formerly known as Camp Green Farmhouse.
Listing NGR: TM1811063285
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 281540
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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